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Old 9th May 2009
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>1. Why do you think Linux got so much popularity?

Well because of legal issues as mentioned above, but partly also due less hype than in the Linux community. But do you know the NSA, DARPA, Nokia, Apple, Cisco, Juniper, ISC, Yahoo et. al.? They're all using *BSD. Furthermore Firefox 3 uses jemalloc from FreeBSD, OpenSSH from OpenBSD is used in *BSD and Linux too, Linux kernel uses many drivers from *BSD, superpages etc., Google Android uses libc from NetBSD/OpenBSD and many parts of the userland etc. pp. As I said less hype :-)

>2. Why does not Adobe make our lives a bit easier and give us a native Flash player, instead of running it under Linux emulation?

Well, ask them. Sun pays for Flash in Solaris and Flash for Linux is good for the public relation of Adobe ('we do open source too'). Linux has got less to none relevance on the desktop, *BSD has got even a fraction of this relevance only. So in the end we're talking about hype.

>3. Most of the Linux guys which I had a discussion with haven't even heard of BSD - isn't this a constricted outlook?

The less hype, the less fellows, the more quality :-)


>386BSD wasn't around when Linus first created Linux

386BSD was utter crap. Therefore we've got FreeBSD and NetBSD :-)
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